Record-setting Minden glider pilot Gordon Boettger and co-pilot Bruce Campbell completed the longest distance glider flight in the world early Monday morning. While a technicality will keep it from ...

Fred Fehsenfeld, a Purdue mechanical engineering alumnus, stands near Sky Dancer, a Pipistrel Sinus glider he gifted to Purdue. The gift effectively ushers in a new era of glider instruction and ...

Other people’s vacation videos can be painfully dull. Chris Gursky’s is painfully terrifying – best watched while peeking through your fingers. Gursky, an American, was on his first day of a vacation ...

Airbus completed a test flight of a glider set to eventually travel to the edge of space, in a pioneering step into the stratosphere. The Perlan 2's flight, from an airstrip in the western US state of ...